How to call the Confluence REST API from a Scriptrunner script?

[Thomas Berger]

I'm trying to call a Confluence REST API endpoint from a Scriptrunner script in Confluence.

I saw this example: https://scriptrunner.adaptavist.com/latest/jira/behaviours-conversions.html#_walkthrough_external_rest_service

But I always get a 'Bad Request' error with the Confluence API.

Anybody got a working example?

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello, 

Kindly produce your code

[Nic Brough -Adaptavist-]

My "working example" is the one given on the page you linked to.  So we need to see what you're doing differently!

[Thomas Berger]

Hi Nic,

Can you please comment on placing the same REST call in the 'Script Console' resulting in a 'Bad Request' vs. a 'Custom Endpoint' and everything is working fine.

def httpBuilder = new HTTPBuilder(clientURL)    
def response = httpBuilder.request(Method.GET, ContentType.JSON) { 
  uri.path = "/rest/api/content/search"
  uri.query = [cql:"$query", os_authType:"basic", os_username:"$username", os_password:"$password"]

[Alexey Matveev]

@Thomas Berger

You receive bad request error because your uri.query part is wrong. You use parameters which do not exist in/rest/api/content/search  . You need to  delete all parameters except cql from your uri.query part. 

You have to pass authentication parameters in the header of your request. For example:

httpRequest.addHeader('Authorization', 'Basic ' + 'admin:admin'.bytes.encodeBase64().toString()

[Thomas Berger]

Thanks Alexey, the authentication doesn't seem to be the issues here. See also https://developer.atlassian.com/docs/atlassian-platform-common-components/rest-api-development/rest-and-os_authtype as a reference for the method I've used.

The issue is more with the Scriptrunner interface 'Script Console' or my lack of understanding of it.